M
The letter M accounts for 204 of the 2,618 shows here, with 212 opening title sequences from 1947 to the present.
30 of them are filed here rather than under their first word, because an index ignores a leading "The" or "A" — The Morning Show, The Man in the High Castle and The Mighty Nein among them.
Eight rebuilt their opening titles mid-run.
204 shows212 sequences
1 sequence
M*A*S*H
A comedy that opens every week with casualties being carried off a helicopter. Nurses and surgeons run for the landing pad while the theme plays underneath — an instrumental of a song the network would not let anyone sing, because of what its chorus says.
- Seasons 1–11
1 sequence
MacGyver
Improvised solutions cut fast enough that you never see how any of them work, which is also true of the episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMad About You
A married couple in New York, over a theme that was re-recorded repeatedly and once sung by the show's own stars.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Mad Men
A silhouetted adman falls past skyscrapers built out of his own advertising — smiling wives, stockinged legs, a hand holding a drink — and then, at the bottom, is sitting comfortably with a cigarette. Nobody lands. That is the joke and the thesis.
- Seasons 1–7
1 sequenceMadam Secretary
A CIA analyst made Secretary of State, in the political drama CBS ran opposite prestige cable.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Made in Abyss
A children's-book art style over a descent that gets progressively less survivable.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMade in Heaven
Two Delhi wedding planners, and everything the families hire them to conceal.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMadeline
Bemelmans' twelve little girls in two straight lines, animated in the style of the books.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMADtv
Mad magazine turned into a sketch show, with Alfred E. Neuman in the titles and a cast that changed almost every year.
- Season 9
1 sequenceMaestra: Strings of Truth
A conductor holding an orchestra together while the deaths around it accumulate.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMaggie and the Ferocious Beast
A girl, a spotted beast and a pig live on Nowhere Land, where nothing much goes wrong.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMagic City
A Miami Beach hotel in 1959, on the night Castro takes Havana.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Magic Roundabout
A French stop-motion series that Eric Thompson re-narrated in English without translating the scripts, inventing different characters over the same pictures.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Magic School Bus
A science teacher who shrinks her class and drives them through the lesson, with Lily Tomlin at the wheel.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Magicians
Magic treated as postgraduate study, opened with the seriousness of a university prospectus.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMagnificent Century
Suleiman the Magnificent's court, and the series that made Turkish dizi a global export.
- Season 3
1 sequence
Magnum, P.I.
Hawaii, a Ferrari and a moustache, over a theme so brash it dates the decade to within about eighteen months.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMajor Crimes
The Closer continued around Mary McDonnell's captain rather than Kyra Sedgwick's chief.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Making a Murderer
Manitowoc County in winter over a plucked string figure — the sequence that defined what a Netflix true-crime series would look like for the next decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMalcolm & Eddie
Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin sharing a Kansas City bar, four years after The Cosby Show ended.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Malcolm in the Middle
They Might Be Giants' 'Boss of Me' over archive film of chaos — falling, crashing and general misadventure, cut faster than a network comedy usually dares.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMama's Family
A Carol Burnett Show sketch given its own house, dropped by NBC and then run for four more years in syndication.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMan Down
Greg Davies as a teacher whose life is a sustained emergency, with Rik Mayall as his father.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Sixties spy graphics and a brass chart, in the register every subsequent spy show either copied or reacted against.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Man in the High Castle
Dick's occupied America, opened by newsreel light thrown across a map that has the wrong flags on it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceA Man on the Inside
A retired professor sent undercover into a care home, from the creator of The Good Place.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMan v. Food
A presenter attempting restaurant eating challenges built to be impossible, and losing more often than not.
- Season 10
1 sequenceThe Man Who Fell to Earth
The Tevis novel continued rather than remade, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as a second visitor.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mandalorian
A chapter card and Ludwig Göransson's bass recorder — the first live-action Star Wars series opens like a serial, which is what it is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceManhattan
The scientists at Los Alamos, and the families billeted alongside them who were told nothing.
- Season 1
1 sequenceManhunt
Period engraving and telegraph type, assembling the pursuit of Lincoln's killer out of the era's own printed matter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceManiac
Retro-futurist hardware and pharmaceutical diagrams in a palette borrowed from 1980s Japan — a computer's idea of a mind, drawn by the machine trying to fix one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
A cat sheriff who wants to be a legendary hero and is instead responsible for a valley of fruit people.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarch Comes in Like a Lion
A teenage professional shogi player and the depression the game is holding at bay.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarco Polo
Ink drawings of the Silk Road bleeding across parchment — cities, armies and mountains growing out of the map as the journey extends east.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceMarcus Welby, M.D.
A family doctor in Santa Monica, and the first ABC series to finish a season as the most-watched programme in America.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Mare of Easttown
Delaware County in winter — vinyl siding, chain-link, a quarry — over Lucius's 'Drunk'. Thirty-four seconds that refuse to make the place look like anything but itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMargo's Got Money Troubles
A dolls'-house assault course in hard candy colours, Margo tumbling room to room while the credits ride the furniture.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Marianne
A horror novelist who discovers the witch she invented has been real the whole time, and eleven seconds to say it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarried... with Children
Sinatra's 'Love and Marriage' over a Chicago family who demonstrably have neither — one of television's earliest deliberately sarcastic openings.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarry My Husband
A woman murdered by her husband, sent back ten years to arrange a different outcome.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMarseille
The port city from the water, for Netflix's first French commission — a political drama that opens like a tourist board film and then does not behave like one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMartial Law
Sammo Hung as a Chinese detective in Los Angeles, doing his own stunts at forty-six.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMartin
Detroit, a hip-hop bed and a lead who plays most of the supporting cast himself.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceThe Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
A boy raised by a whale, in a sea-shanty register that got steadily more unsettling.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Barely a title at all: the name in a magenta 1950s script on black, held for about three seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMary & George
A mother steering her son into James I's bed and the court that followed.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMask Girl
One woman played by three actors across three decades, from the webtoon.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMasked Rider
Kamen Rider adapted for American television as a family sitcom with a monster in it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMasterChef Australia
The British format remade at far greater length, and for several years the most watched thing on Australian television.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMasters of Horror
An anthology giving a different established horror director an hour each week.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMasters of Sex
Masters and Johnson's research, opened by a sequence of double meanings built out of 1950s stock footage.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMasters of the Air
Bomber nose art, contrails and flak, in the tradition of Band of Brothers — and at over two and a half minutes, one of the longest openings on this site.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMasters of the Universe: Revelation
Kevin Smith's continuation of the 1983 series, opened in the same fanfare it inherited.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Match of the Day
Barry Stoller's theme, unchanged since 1970, over whatever graphics the decade happens to allow.
- Season 7
- Season 62
1 sequenceMatlock
Andy Griffith as a defence attorney in a grey suit, nine seasons long.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMatt Houston
A Texas oil heir running a detective agency in Los Angeles because he is bored.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMaude
The All in the Family spin-off, with a theme song that lists historical women and lands on Maude.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMax & Ruby
A rabbit of three and his sister of seven, in a world where no adult ever appears on screen.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMax Headroom
A cyberpunk satire about television, broadcast on television, twenty minutes into the future.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Maxx
Sam Kieth's comic animated almost panel for panel, about a homeless man who is a superhero in another world.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMayans M.C.
The Sons of Anarchy spin-off, on the other side of the California border.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMayday
A May Queen vanishing on the morning of the procession, and a village that suspects itself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMayfair Witches
Anne Rice's New Orleans witches, in the same continuity AMC built for the vampires.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMcCloud
A New Mexico marshal seconded to the NYPD, part of the rotating NBC Mystery Movie wheel.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMcHale's Navy
A PT boat crew running a black market in the South Pacific.
- Season 1
2 sequences
McLeod's Daughters
Two half-sisters who inherit a South Australian cattle station and run it with an all-female crew.
- Season 1
- Season 5
1 sequenceMcMafia
A banker pulled back into his family's Russian organised-crime money.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMcMillions
The man who stole every winning piece in the McDonald's Monopoly game for twelve years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMeadowlands
A family in witness protection on an estate where everyone else is hiding something too.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMedium
Patricia Arquette as a consultant to the district attorney who dreams the cases.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMeet the Press
The longest-running programme in television history, and fifteen seconds of titles to show for seventy-seven years.
- Season 77
1 sequenceMegas XLR
A New Jersey mechanic who finds a giant robot in a scrapyard and bolts a car to its head.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
A schoolgirl who can rewrite reality and has not been told, in an adaptation that first broadcast its episodes deliberately out of order.
- Season 1
- Season 2
1 sequenceMelissa & Joey
A local politician and the man who becomes her nanny, in the longest-running sitcom ABC Family made.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMelrose Place
The same freeze-frame grammar as its parent show, moved to an apartment complex and given a considerably nastier theme.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMen Behaving Badly
Two flatmates and the phrase the British press attached to a decade.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMen of a Certain Age
Three friends at the wrong end of their forties, written by Ray Romano and Mike Royce.
- Season 1
1 sequence
The Mentalist
A red smiley face drawn in blood, which is the whole of the series' mythology compressed into one image.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMerlin
Camelot rendered in gold and firelight, with a narration establishing a prophecy in about the time it takes to say one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMetal Mickey
A robot in a suburban family sitcom, directed by Micky Dolenz of the Monkees.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMetalocalypse
A death-metal theme written and performed by the show's creator, for a cartoon about a band whose concerts have a body count.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiami Vice
Flamingos, jai alai and pastel architecture over Jan Hammer — a title sequence that sold an entire aesthetic and arguably a city.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Middle
An Indiana family with no money and no prospects, nine seasons long.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMidnight Caller
A former policeman taking calls on late-night radio, and one of the first American dramas to write about AIDS.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMidnight Diner (2009)
The original MBS run of the Shinjuku diner open from midnight to seven, seven years before Netflix continued it as Tokyo Stories.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMidnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Two minutes of Tokyo at night before anyone speaks — a series whose opening is longer and slower than most shows' cold opens, deliberately.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Midsomer Murders
A theremin over English villages — the single most incongruous pairing of instrument and setting in television, and the reason the show is recognisable in four notes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiffy and Friends
Dick Bruna's rabbit animated in stop motion, keeping the flat colours and the two-dot face intact.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiffy's Adventures Big and Small
The same rabbit remade in computer animation a decade later, and given considerably more to do.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mighty B!
Amy Poehler's Honeybee scout collecting every badge in existence.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mighty Boosh
A stage show that became a radio series that became a television series, and kept the crimping in all three.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMighty Max
A toy line turned into a series with Tim Curry and Richard Moll in it, and a body count.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMighty Morphin Alien Rangers
Ten episodes bridging two seasons, with the regular cast turned into children and rangers from another planet standing in.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMighty Morphin Power Rangers
Japanese Super Sentai footage cut against American actors, and the biggest thing on children's television for three years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mighty Nein
Critical Role's second campaign animated, three years after The Legend of Vox Machina did the first.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Mike & Molly
Two people who meet at an overeaters group on the north side of Chicago.
- Season 1
- Seasons 4–6
1 sequenceMike Tyson Mysteries
Scooby-Doo's structure with Mike Tyson, a ghost, a pigeon and an adopted daughter.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMildred Pierce
Todd Haynes's five-part Cain adaptation with Kate Winslet.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMillennium
Chris Carter's other series, opened with the same Mark Snow unease as The X-Files and none of its wit — thirty-four seconds that promise a much worse world.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMilo Murphy's Law
A boy for whom anything that can go wrong does, from the Phineas and Ferb creators.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMind Your Language
An adult English class of national stereotypes, opened by a blackboard that spells the title out in every student's hand.
- Seasons 1–3
1 sequenceMinder
Arthur Daley and his minder, and a theme song sung by Dennis Waterman about Dennis Waterman.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Mindhunter
Reel-to-reel tape, evidence photographs and audio equipment intercut so tightly that the interview and the crime become one process. Clinical, and much nastier for it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mindy Project
Mindy Kaling as an obstetrician with a romantic-comedy view of her own life.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMinor Adjustments
A child psychologist who is markedly better with other people's children than with his own.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiracle Workers
An anthology that keeps its cast and changes everything else — heaven, the Dark Ages, the Oregon Trail, the apocalypse.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMiracles
A church investigator of the unexplained, cancelled after six of its thirteen episodes aired.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
Two Parisian teenagers who transform into superheroes and spend six seasons not working out who the other one is.
- Season 5
- Season 6
1 sequenceMiranda
Miranda Hart addressing the camera in a joke shop, in eleven seconds of open.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMirzapur
A carpet-trading family running the guns and opium of an eastern Uttar Pradesh town.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMisaeng
A go player with no qualifications put into a trading company, and the office drama that made Korea talk about its own working hours.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMisfits
Community-service orange and a storm, with superpowers treated as one more thing happening to people who already had enough going on.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMiss Scarlet and The Duke
A woman who inherits her father's detective agency in Victorian London and declines to sell it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Missing
A child vanishing in France and the two timelines that follow it, eight years apart.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMission: Impossible
A lit fuse crossing the screen while clips from the episode ahead flash past it — a title sequence recut every week from the show it introduces.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMister Rogers' Neighborhood
Thirty-three years of the same arrival: the door, the cardigan, the shoes, the song.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMisty
A news anchor accused of murder, and the husband defending her without knowing.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mitchell and Webb Situation
David Mitchell and Robert Webb's first sketch series, five years before the one everyone remembers.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMob City
Frank Darabont's post-Walking Dead series, on 1940s Los Angeles, cancelled after six episodes.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMob Psycho 100
Paint, distortion and animation techniques that change every few seconds — a title sequence used as a showcase for what the studio can do.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMock the Week
A topical panel show whose titles cut the week's news into a strobing collage before anyone speaks.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Modern Family
Fourteen seconds of family photographs sliding into place, and a card. Nothing else.
- Season 1
1 sequenceModern Love
The New York Times column adapted an essay per episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoesha
Brandy Norwood as a Los Angeles teenager, and UPN's first real hit.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Mole
Contestants building a prize fund while one of them sabotages it, and nobody knows which.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMom
A newly sober mother and her newly sober mother, in a Chuck Lorre sitcom that got steadily less comfortable on purpose.
- Season 8
1 sequence
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
Field notes, redacted files and creature silhouettes — a monster show introduced entirely through paperwork.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMonday Night Football
The programme that moved American football into primetime, and gave it a fanfare to arrive on.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMoney Heist
Red jumpsuits, Dalí masks and the Royal Mint rendered as a heist diagram, with 'Bella Ciao' turned from a partisan song into a brand.
- Seasons 3–5
1 sequenceMonk
Randy Newman singing about being obsessive over a detective straightening things — a theme that explains the character faster than the pilot does.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Monkees
A band assembled for a television series that then became an actual band, with the titles as their first single.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMonster
Restrained to the point of austerity — portraits, European streets and a single held tone, for a series about a doctor who saved the wrong life.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMonster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Domestic surfaces filmed too closely — carpet, wallpaper, a fish tank — so ordinary rooms read as evidence before anything has happened in them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMonsters
A half-hour anthology from the Tales from the Darkside producers, with a creature in every episode and a budget for none of them.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMonsters at Work
Monsters, Inc. after the switch from screams to laughter, told from the maintenance floor.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMonty Python's Flying Circus
Terry Gilliam's cut-out animation and a Sousa march — a title sequence that behaves like a sketch, because it is one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Moon Embracing the Sun
A king and the shaman he was betrothed to as a boy, in the year's most-watched Korean drama.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoon Knight
A man with dissociative identity disorder and an Egyptian god sharing him, with titles that run at the END of each episode rather than the start.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoonbase 8
Three astronauts in an Arizona simulator, none of whom will ever go to the moon.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoonbeam City
A Patrick Nagel pastiche in neon and chrome, which is the entire aesthetic argument of the series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoonlighting
Al Jarreau singing a theme written for the show, over two people who spend four seasons refusing to admit anything.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMoral Orel
Stop-motion in the Davey and Goliath idiom, which by its third season had stopped being a parody at all.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Morecambe & Wise Show
Bring Me Sunshine and a skip off stage, in front of the largest audience British television has ever had.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMork & Mindy
An egg-shaped spacecraft over Boulder, Colorado, and a theme that has to establish an alien, a roommate and a sitcom simultaneously.
- Season 1
2 sequences
The Morning Show
Broadcast graphics assembling and collapsing — the machinery of a network morning programme, shown as the thing that eats the people in front of it.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceMortal Kombat: Conquest
The games' tournament set six hundred years earlier, made for syndication and cancelled on a cliffhanger.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMotorcity
A hidden Detroit beneath a corporate city, from the Titmouse studio, cancelled after one season.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMouse
A patrol officer hunting a psychopath, in a series that spends its first quarter setting up a reversal.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMozart in the Jungle
A New York orchestra and the conductor who takes it apart, opened in thirteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr Benn
A man in a bowler hat, a costume shop and a changing room door, thirteen times.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr Inbetween
An Australian hitman's domestic life, opened in twelve seconds because the series has no interest in ceremony.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr Selfridge
The American who opened a department store on Oxford Street and spent everything keeping it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr Squiggle
A marionette from the moon with a pencil for a nose, turning children's scribbles into drawings for forty years.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. & Mrs. Smith
The film remade as a series about the marriage rather than the shooting, with Donald Glover and Maya Erskine.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Mr. Bean
A man dropped from the sky in a spotlight while a choir sings about him in Latin, every week, for a character who never explains himself.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Bean: The Animated Series
The character animated, which suits him — he barely spoke in live action either.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Belvedere
An English butler working for a Pittsburgh family, out of a film series forty years older than the sitcom.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Dressup
A tickle trunk, two puppets and twenty-nine years of the same man drawing on a pad — Canada's answer to Mister Rogers, made by a man who worked on it.
- Season 19
1 sequenceThe Mr. Men Show
Roger Hargreaves' shapes rebuilt as a sketch show, forty years after the books.
- Season 2
2 sequences
Mr. Mercedes
King's retired detective and the man who drove a car into a queue of people looking for work.
- Season 1
- Season 3
1 sequenceMr. Pickles
A family dog who is secretly satanic, opened in the visual language of a wholesome fifties cartoon.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Queen
A modern chef's soul trapped in a Joseon queen's body, from the Chinese web series Go Princess Go.
- Season 1
1 sequence
Mr. Robot
There is no title sequence. There is a card, and the card is the whole design — which makes this the rare show whose opening is defined by what it refuses to do.
- Seasons 1–4
1 sequenceMr. Show with Bob and David
The American sketch show that took Monty Python's structure — sketches flowing into one another rather than ending — and put it on cable.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMr. Sunshine
A Korean boy sold into slavery who returns as an American marine, set in the last years before annexation.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMrs. America
The fight over the Equal Rights Amendment, opened by period graphic design doing the arguing.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMrs. Brown's Boys
A Dublin matriarch played by the man who writes her, taped with the crew, the corpsing and the fluffed lines all left in.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMs. Marvel
A Jersey City teenager who is a fan of the Avengers before she is one, in nine seconds of animated marker pen.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMTV Unplugged
Sixteen seconds and an acoustic guitar — a format whose whole argument is in the title card.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMummies Alive!
Four Egyptian mummies revived in San Francisco to guard the reincarnation of a pharaoh's son.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Munsters
The rival monster sitcom, launched the same year, opening with a surf-rock instrumental and a family filing out of a house at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMuppet Babies
The Muppets as toddlers in a nursery, spun out of a dream sequence in The Muppets Take Manhattan.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Muppet Show
An opening that changes every week by design: Statler and Waldorf get a new heckle, Gonzo gets a new way to fail the closing note, and the arch fills with whoever is in that episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Muppets (2015)
The Muppets as a workplace mockumentary, which lasted one season and a mid-season change of format.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMurder One
Steven Bochco's experiment in giving a single trial an entire season, and the courtroom-portrait titles that went with it.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMurder, She Wrote
A typewriter, a bicycle and Cabot Cove — twelve seasons of the most reassuring opening ever attached to a programme about repeated homicide.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMurderbot
Corporate spacefaring iconography interrupted by the soap operas its narrator would rather be watching.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMurdoch Mysteries
A Toronto detective in the 1890s using methods the era has not invented yet, past twenty seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMurphy Brown
A Washington newsroom and a Motown needle-drop that changed every episode — the theme was a different soul record each week.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Musketeers
Dumas serialised for Sunday evenings, with ink and gunpowder titles to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMutant X
A Marvel-adjacent series made in Canada that Fox sued over for resembling the X-Men.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMXC
Takeshi's Castle redubbed into something considerably ruder, with the original footage left exactly as it was.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Adventures with Superman
Clark, Lois and Jimmy in their twenties, animated in an anime register with an opening to match.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Brilliant Friend
Naples in the fifties rendered in faded photography, for an adaptation that spans fifty years of two lives.
- Season 2
2 sequences
My Family
A Chiswick dentist and the relatives he cannot get out of the house, written by a rotating room on the American model.
- Season 3
- Season 6
1 sequenceMy Hero Academia
Superhero iconography by way of shonen convention, with a new opening for each season announcing how much worse things have got.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Liberation Notes
Three siblings commuting out of the suburbs, in a series largely about wanting to be somewhere else.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Life as a Teenage Robot
A teenage combat robot who would rather be at school, drawn in hard mid-century angles.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Little Pony 'n Friends
The Hasbro line's first series, thirty years before the franchise found an audience it had not been aimed at.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
A toy line handed to an animator who took it entirely seriously, and an audience nobody had forecast.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Mister
A middle-aged engineer and a young woman in debt, in one of the quietest series Korean television has made.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Name Is Earl
A petty criminal working through a written list of everything he has done wrong, one item an episode.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Roommate Is a Gumiho
A nine-tailed fox nine hundred years from becoming human, sharing a flat with the student who swallowed his bead.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Sassy Girl
The film remade as a Joseon romance, with a princess in place of the original's student.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy So-Called Life
Snapshots and handwriting, in the register of a teenager's own notebook rather than a network's idea of one.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Three Sons
Fred MacMurray raising three boys, opening on animated feet in a row that everyone remembers before the theme.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Two Dads
A girl left to two men, either of whom might be her father, by a court that declines to establish which.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMy Wife and Kids
Damon Wayans running a household on a theory of parenting he makes up as he goes.
- Season 4
1 sequenceMystery Road
The Australian outback shot as landscape rather than backdrop, for a detective series about who the land belongs to.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMystery Science Theater 3000
A man and two robots heckling films, whose theme song exists to explain the premise and then says so out loud.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
Irish myth given the Power Rangers treatment, shot in Ireland with armour instead of spandex.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMythBusters
Two special-effects builders testing folklore with explosives, introduced by a montage of the explosives.
- Season 1
1 sequenceMythic Quest
Twelve seconds of game-engine fantasy, presented with the seriousness of a launch trailer for a product nobody in the show can finish.
- Season 1